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I’m a WW gold member, have been at goal for 20 years after years of struggling with various diets. For my workday lunches I make a batch of soup on a Sunday and make sure it has either lentils or chickpeas/other beans in it so I get my protein. It fills me up because I’m eating with a spoon and it seems more substantial. I tend to fill up on loads of veg or salad with only small portions of anything else. It takes a while to get used to it and have the right mindset. You need to make healthy choices, certainly don’t starve yourself or deprive yourself of the odd treat or you’ll set yourself up for a fall. You need to look at it as changing the way you eat for good not as a diet. You’ll get there if you’re determined.I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)7
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Are you actually eatting enough calories? Unless you are shorter than average or too small already that is not going to be enough to live on weight watching or not. Your body sometimes goes into shock mode and hangs on to all the fat if you starve yourself too much as it thinks it's never getting food again. Mines in permanent shock mode or maybe I just over eat 🤣🤣Dedicated Debt Free Wanabee 🤓
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I would like to think mine is the former but much more likely the latermoving_forward said: Mines in permanent shock mode or maybe I just over eat 🤣🤣Fashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
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Lol, sadly 1200 is the recommended for average women…but I do go a bit over. They say 2000 to stay the same, but from bitter experience anything over 1600 has me piling it back on 😖 I don’t move very much with my desk job.Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
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NHS website has recommended calories for losing with its BMI calculator I think.Dedicated Debt Free Wanabee 🤓
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1422 cals for the lower end of the scale (which it recommends to aim for to lose 1-2 lbs per week), so I’m not far off. MyFitnessPal says 1200.moving_forward said:NHS website has recommended calories for losing with its BMI calculator I think.Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
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So very sensible, but (lip trembles) I really love chocolate and crisps 😢Sun_Addict said:I’m a WW gold member, have been at goal for 20 years after years of struggling with various diets. For my workday lunches I make a batch of soup on a Sunday and make sure it has either lentils or chickpeas/other beans in it so I get my protein. It fills me up because I’m eating with a spoon and it seems more substantial. I tend to fill up on loads of veg or salad with only small portions of anything else. It takes a while to get used to it and have the right mindset. You need to make healthy choices, certainly don’t starve yourself or deprive yourself of the odd treat or you’ll set yourself up for a fall. You need to look at it as changing the way you eat for good not as a diet. You’ll get there if you’re determined.Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
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Whispers. I have tried the mini egg chocolate someone on here mentioned.
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It sounds horrible @WinterWarrior Hopefully soon your bosy will stop feeling hungry - I had a colleague in an old job who said it took about a week and then it was a lot easier. Although I'm not sure if that is just starvation mode and then everything you eat goes to fat!Live the good life where you have been planted.
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There's a mini egg chocolate diet?beanielou said:Whispers. I have tried the mini egg chocolate someone on here mentioned.
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